Law

It’s happening… and perhaps even coming to your country soon!

If Brazil’s Senate passes a bill approved unanimously by its House of Representatives, Christians and other concerned members of society who speak out and offend a homosexual can soon be slapped with a five-year jail term for doing so.

Under the guise of preventing discrimination, the measure is seen as the latest attempt at promoting homosexuality — the President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has previously said that opposition to homosexuality is “perhaps the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head” and called for the “criminalization of homophobia”.

If the bill is passed, it will stipulate a five-year jail term for anyone preventing actions of “homosexual affection” in public or private locations open to the public, and penalize private and public school administrators with up to three years in prison if they refuse to hire openly “gay” teachers. In other words, the measure will force prison time for any “moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices”, according to Catholic News Agency (CNA).

The Association of the Defense of Life (ADL) put it down simply as fact that, if the bill is passed, a priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained.

Source: WorldNetDaily.

All I have to say is this:

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

A recent uproar in Malaysia over remarks that school uniforms worn by school girls in the country are too sexy and encourages rape and pre-marital sex is both amusing and a great reminder of how depraved the minds of man are.

While I don’t agree that the girls are the primary ones to be blamed and men are just responding to their lusts as it is in their nature to do so, I’d like to state that it doesn’t matter if the school uniforms are perceived to be sexy to begin with, but that the total depravity of man itself is the primary lesson we can all draw from this episode.

Don’t look so surprised or shocked when I say this — that sometimes it doesn’t matter what a woman wears or how she looks, but that if a man has his thoughts on lust, those factors don’t matter one single bit. A woman can be all covered up, but some men can still have perverted pleasure in undressing her in their minds!

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I just learned about this from reading the blog posts at Simply Jean and Mr Wang Says So.

ST April 15, 2008
Couple charged under Sedition Act
By Elena Chong

A COUPLE were charged on Tuesday with distributing a seditious publication to two others.

Ong Kian Cheong, 49, and Dorothy Chan Hien Leng, 44, are alleged to have distributed The Little Bride, an evangelistic material, to Sembawang resident Irwan Ariffin last Oct 19.

They are also said to have distributed the same publication to one Madam Farharti Ahmad at her home in Woodlands on March 6 last year .

It is not clear why they face the Sedition Act and the Undesirable Publication Act when the publication is the same.

Ong, who works in a telecommunications company, and his wife, a bank employee, were represented by Mr Selva K. Naidu.

The police prosecutor sought an adjournment of the case pending a Health Sciences Authority on handwriting specimen.

The couple were freed on $10,000 bail each. Their passports were impounded.

The case will be mentioned on April 29.

Under the Sedition Act, the maximum penalty is a $5,000 fine and/or a jail term of up to three years.

The maximum penalty under the Undesirable Publication Act is a fine of up to $5,000 and/or up to 12 months.

If this goes to trial, I’m guessing that it’ll become a landmark case whatever the outcome.

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